Windsor-Detroit corridor meetup

[Severina Amadenna Salem-Snape]

Sassy Snape, invites all to join the members of CanUsa Potterphiles 
for the second CanUsa PotterPhiles meetup, which is scheduled for 
Saturday Nov 13 at 6:15pm at the Holiday Inn Select. Here is the 
welcome from meetup.com that I sent out to give you some background. 
Feel more than welcome to join the group and attend whenever you 
can!  
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To paraphrase Headmaster Albus Dumbledore's and Professor 
Severus Snape's welcome in PS:
Welcome! Welcome to a new era for your meetup group. Before I begin I 
would like to say a few words, and here they are: CanUsa! Potter! 
Philes! How is that for the name of our new meetup group? CanUsa 
PotterPhiles = CUPP, in honour of the house cup that we so covet.

Now I have a few start-of-group notices to tell you.
First, the meetings will now be held in Windsor, Ontario. Why in 
Canada, you ask?
1.Because I live in Canada, which makes organizing meetups a lot 
easier
2.The US dollar is worth more in Canada, than the Canadian dollar in 
the US
3.Canadians have a more difficult time crossing the border with US 
customs, since 9/11

Second, all members will be sorted - there will be no quiz here, we 
shall see where fate sorts you – also if membership allows, we would 
come up with a points system and have prefects. As you are sorted 
into your houses you are also sorted for the scavenger hunt - the 
house with the most points wins the house cup.

Finally, we will discuss books, films, JKRs website, plus on occasion 
we could have a games night, and I am hoping for an annual 
anniversary event, such as a scavenger hunt.

It is at these meetings where we will discuss the subtle science and 
exact art of Harry Potter. There will be plenty of foolish wand-
waving here. We will learn to understand and appreciate the beauty 
and the delicate power of JKRs vision/creation creeping through 
muggle veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses
we can 
examine how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death and above 
all
remember Harry Potter is our new celebrity. Fame clearly is 
everything!

I hope we can all take our journey to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft 
and Wizardry together. 


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Simple directions for out-of-towners.
Take the bridge into Canada, after customs, (you should not 
have to declare your wands as a weapon :)) follow the road 
south (away from the bridge) - the exit from Customs merges 
into Huron Church Road. You will have to go past the shopping 
plazas, Holiday Inn will be on your right. You will have to 
turn onto Malden to get into the parking lot. I believe it is 
at the third or fourth light. 

For those who may be taking the 401 into Windsor - continue on 
the 401, it will merge into Huron Church, when the road curves. 
You will have to go under another expressway (EC Row) and about 
three lights until you reach Malden Rd. Also, watch out for the 
trucks - you will have to get into the left-hand lane.

The meeting will not be cancelled, so I hope everyone can 
attend. 
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To join CanUsa Potterphiles, go here:
http://harrypotter.meetup.com/17/